Two games into the domestic campaign and it looks like things are starting to fall into place for Pedro Caixinha's new-look squad.

The 2-1 win over Motherwell last weekend, while far from perfect, was a solid start and a much-needed three points to kick off the league campaign.

Beginning last season with a draw at home to Hamilton put Rangers on the back foot from the word go but, after surviving a scare or two, getting the win at Fir Park has set the Light Blues up well for what should be a challenging run of games going into next month's Old Firm clash.

James Tavernier celebrates his goal against Dunfermline

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Following up Sunday's win with a 6-0 thumping of Dunfermline in the League Cup on Wednesday night will have given one or two players in the squad a little confidence boost as they get used to their new team mates and surroundings; not to mention giving the fans the type of performance we've waited a long time to see.

Admittedly, it was 'only' Dunfermline but it's been a long time since Rangers put in such a convincing display and had fans universally praising the performance - even those on social media who complain because it's a day with a 'y' in it were happy at full time on Wednesday - and there are definitely signs that Caixinha has built a squad who have bought into what he is trying to do at Ibrox.

Pedro Caixinha applauds his players

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With Hibs the visitors at Ibrox this weekend it's a great chance for Caixinha and his squad to put down a marker early in the season and, not for the first time, send Neil Lennon away from Ibrox with his tail between his legs.

There's been much said about Hibs' summer recruitment but are the likes of Anthony Stokes an improvement on Jason Cummings? Then there's Efe Ambrose. The ex-Celtic bombscare isn't exactly renowned for his cool, composed defending and getting the runaround at Ibrox might just see the 'whit 'ma like' memes getting brought out of retirement.

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While things on the pitch seem to be improving at Ibrox - and, if you believe the hype, around the rest of the SPFL Premiership - off the pitch, there's been a very sinister change in the atmosphere surrounding Scottish football.

Over the last few weeks we've seen, amongst other things, a section of Celtic Park closed for 'paramilitary' banners; a punter slashed in hospitality at Celtic Park; Aberdeen fans scrapping in Cyprus; Celtic fans scrapping in Sunderland and singing utterly horrific songs about Lee Rigby and Dundee United's chairman attacked at Dens Park.

Supporters are a large part of what makes Scottish football as uniquely entertaining as it is but there are more and more 'fans' who seem determined to ruin it for the vast majority.

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With moves afoot at Holyrood to scrap the much-derided Offensive Behaviour at Football Act, you'd be forgiven for thinking we were trying to give them a reason to impose further draconian measures instead of repealing the whole thing. Maybe I'm doing this whole 'being a football fan' thing wrong but I've never seen football as a vehicle for politics, religion or anything else.

There was also a quite surreal episode earlier this week when the brain trust behind the English-language advert in a French-language newspaper in Switzerland decided to peddle some nonsense about decade-old match-fixing, EBTs and Jimmy Calderwood before claiming the SFA had "seized" documentation from them. This led to the Dunfermline board having to issue a statement rubbishing the whole thing.